All Archive Titles articles – Page 22
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Archive TitlesLetter from... the Urban Oasis
For a travelling temporary structure, anywhere it hangs its hat is its home. Laurie Chetwood updates us on the peripatetic life of his power-generating, rain-harvesting kinetic sustainability totem.
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Archive TitlesKings of the road
ESS supplies structures to rock stars and Urban Salon is fascinated by temporary architecture. When they collaborate, it’s quite a double act.
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Innovation in a hurry
I was studying architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic in 1950 and one of our studio masters was working on the Royal Festival Hall at the LCC.
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Archive TitlesGoing from strength to strength
This is my last president’s column so I thought I should reflect on what the RIBA team has achieved in my term.
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Archive TitlesGimme shelter
Corrugated iron is often associated with poverty and ugliness, but it is its cheapness and versatility that have made it such a ubiquitous material for temporary shelter – plus it makes a terrific children’s hideaway.
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Short-term gains
Working on temporary structures allows architects to develop ideas that go beyond the conventional, says Simon Beames.
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Archive TitlesExterior views
‘Is this a chair?’ enquires one elderly American visitor of her equally elderly friend. ‘Er, I think it must be,’ comes the uncertain response. ‘Well, it doesn’t look very comfortable.’
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RFH frontage is dull
When we built the Royal Festival Hall, the war and the period of austerity could be put behind us. We looked forward – tentatively, but hopefully – to a better Britain.
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Vive la difference
What a welcome relief it was to read Gavin Stamp’s article ‘Good riddance’ (RIBAJ July 07).
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Das Englischer Haus
It’s taken more than a century but finally one of the most influential architecture books ever, The English House by Hermann Muthesius, is available in full three-volume translation.
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Archive TitlesZoom in, zoom out by Sarah Brownlee
Where’s the summer gone? It’s absolutely pouring down (well, it is as Zoom goes to press, anyway) and poor old Hull has been in a right old mess.
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British demolition tactics
Last year you closed a heated debate in your columns about the Israel/Palestine issue.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
The Lift New Parliament is a transportable meeting and performance space. Geoff Shearcroft, director of AOC, the winning design team, tells Jan-Carlos Kucharek about the world of difference between demountable and permanent buildings.
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Archive TitlesMixed blessing
A waste product of steel-smelting could cut the carbon emissions of concrete by up to 40%. So how come more architects don’t know about it? By Jan-Carlos Kucharek.
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Don’t blame superstars
Gavin Stamp (last issue) argues against the internationalisation of architecture; the dilution of the formerly exotic and the contamination of the homespun.
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